Providers look to niche vendors to meet ACO needs

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | EMR/EHR

Providers plan to look to niche vendors more often than their incumbent EMR vendors to manage their future ACO needs, according to a KLAS report, “Accountable Care Timing 2013: Migration from Volume to Value Speeds Up.”

KLAS spoke with 73 organizations—mostly medium- to large-sized providers and hospitals—to find out where they are and how fast they are traveling in their migration from volume to value as it relates to accountable care. More than 65 percent of those surveyed anticipate looking to niche vendors to fill their top-three investment areas of population health, health information exchange and business intelligence, according to the report.

"This is a major shift from what we are seeing in most healthcare IT areas," said report author Mark Allphin, research director at KLAS. "What we are seeing in many areas is a migration toward integration. The fact that providers tell us that they will be looking to niche vendors over their EMRs tells us that the ACO market very likely is still up for grabs."

To learn more, access the report here.

 

Laura Pedulli

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